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Bruce Middleton Hope Shand, MC & Bar, DL (22 January 1917 – 11 June 2006) was an officer in the British Army who served in France as part of the British Expeditionary Force during the Second World War. He was the father of Queen Camilla. After the war he became a wine merchant.
- 1937–1947
- Major
Major Bruce Shand, who has died aged 89, was famous for keeping his cool: this earned him two military crosses in the second world war and, half a century later, the gratitude of the Prince of...
May 8, 2020 · Major Bruce Shand M.C. was a soldier and a prisoner of war in the Second World War. The Duchess of Cornwall shares extracts from his book Previous Engagements, based on his letters and diary, for VE Day.
Sep 8, 2023 · Camilla was born in 1947 to Major Bruce Shand, a polo-playing, fox-hunting army officer turned Mayfair wine merchant, and Rosalind Shand, daughter of Roland Cubitt, the third Baron Ashcombe.
Jun 11, 2006 · The former Cavalry officer and wine merchant, who was also a huntsman and a Vice Lord Lieutenant, passed away at his home in Dorset on Sunday morning. He was 89 and had a distinguished military career, winning two Military Crosses in World War II. The Duchess of Cornwall was "absolutely devastated" by his death and Prince Charles was "extremely fond" of him.
Apr 22, 2024 · Camilla, 76, will view a Second World War tunic that belonged to her father, Major Bruce Shand, a 12th Royal Lancer who won the Military Cross during the retreat to Dunkirk in 1940 and again at...
Jun 11, 2006 · Bruce Middleton Hope Shand, MC & Bar, DL (22 January 1917 – 11 June 2006) was an officer in the British Army who served in France as part of the British Expeditionary Force during the Second World War. He was the father of Queen Camilla.
